M.S. Financial Engineering at NYU Tandon, 2027. I work on quantitative trading, execution, and market microstructure, after four years in the Trading Department of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange.
I'm looking for full-time quant research, trading, and execution roles starting in 2027.
Selected projects (each has a full write-up on my website)
| Project | Question | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| VWAP execution research engine · write-up | How should a 50,000-share SPY order be spread across the day, and how did it do against market VWAP? | C++, multithreading |
| Avellaneda–Stoikov market making · write-up | Does inventory-aware quoting control risk on real intraday price paths? | Python, stochastic control |
| SmolLM2 tool use · write-up | Can a 135M-parameter model learn when, and how, to call a Black–Scholes pricer? | PyTorch, TRL, GRPO, DPO |
| Financial sentiment with DistilBERT · write-up | What is behind the ceiling near 0.95 macro-F1 on Financial PhraseBank? | PyTorch, LoRA |
| Regime-aware trading and execution platform · write-up | How much risk should a set of strategies carry, and how should it be executed? (industry-sponsored capstone, private code) | Python, HMM |
Website · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · CV · sm13533@nyu.edu
